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Following Spoonies to migrate, Spoon-billed Sandpiper Flyway Exchange
by Jason Loghry from Birds Korea May 28 2015 Each year, Spoon-billed Sandpipers fly from their breeding ground in Siberia and pass through Japan, Korea and China, down to Southeast Asia for wintering. The main threat this species faces is increasing habitat loss (inter-tidal wetlands) all throughout its migratory and wintering range, in addition to […]
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Reclamation in the Yellow Sea is the main cause of the decline of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper (really)
Dr Nial Moores, Birds Korea, March 12th 2015 The Task Force News Bulletin 13 (February 2015), posted on the increasingly excellent EAAFP website, confirms that for now at least the rapid rate of decline of the charismatic and Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper has leveled off. The evidence for this excellent news now comes from the breeding grounds, the staging areas […]
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Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force: News Bulletin No.13, February 2015
The 13th Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force (SBS TF) News Bulletin is downloadable here. The contents are as below. To read previous news bulletins and find out more about Spoon-billed Sandpiper, please visit our SBS TF page. Foreword from the Editor Russkaya Koshka expedition June 2014 – first positive trends in the breeding grounds Ringing SBS at stopover […]
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Rare spoon-billed sandpipers return to Gulf of Mottama
Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Association (BANCA) said the number of critically endangered Spoon-billed Sandpipers that migrate to the Gulf of Mottama in Myanmar, which is the 117th Flyway Site Network of EAAFP, has more than doubled over the past five years, from 74 in 2010 to 155 this year thanks to efforts of local people to […]
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Recently joined Flyway Network Sites of EAAFP
Judit Szabo, Science Officer EAAF114: Dashinchilen Tsagaan Wetland – Mongolia This central Mongolian site is a complex of spring-fed lakes of variable depth and salinity as well as marshes with reed and sedge. It is an important breeding site for many cranes, anatids and shorebirds and a significant stopover sites for waterbirds that breed further […]
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EAAFP MOP8, Kushiro, Japan, 16-21 January 2015
The Eighth Meeting of Partners (MOP8) of EAAFP was held on 16-21 January in Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan, hosted by Kushiro City and the Ministry of the Environment of Japan. Of EAAFP’s 34 Partners, 29 attended the meeting, including representatives of 16 of the 17 Country Partners. With members of Working Groups and Task Forces, and observers, the total number […]
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Roughing it gives great rewards!
Written by Nigel Clark We are just back in Yangon having spent the last 8 days on an expedition to resurvey the waders that winter on the upper Bay of Martaban. The team consisted of Nigel Clark from the BTO, Guy Anderson, Graeme Buchanan and Rhys Green from the RSPB, Geoff Hilton from WWT […]
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EAAFP Information Brochure 2015 has been published
The latest version of EAAFP Information Brochure in English is downloadable now here. It includes newly joined partners, updated list of Flyway Site Network, activities took place in 2014 and other news. New Partners: Myanmar, Vietnam, ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity New Flyway Network Site : 1 Mongolia, 2 Japan, 3 Myanmar, 2 Thailand, 1 Australia New Activities: Arctic Migratory […]
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World Parks Congress, Sydney, 12-19 November 2014
The World Parks Congress, held every ten years, brings together protected area agencies, managers, practitioners and researchers to chart a path forward for improved coverage, management, support and financing for protected areas throughout the world. The Sydney Congress was attended by Heads of State, government ministers, representatives of development agencies, universities and citizen groups. More […]
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The ‘Monument’ Spoon-billed Sandpiper ‘01’ returns to Rudong
Author: Christoph Zöckler (SBS Task Force Coordinator) The male Spoon-billed Sandpiper ‘01’ has bred not far from the village Meinypilgyno in Chukotka, Russia since at least 2010, but possibly for much longer. It is named ‘monument’ SBS as it always breeds near an old monument set up by the villagers, but as it happens, the bird’s […]
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